Thursday, June 23, 2005 |
23:28 - It's still better than American Dad, though
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It's giddily funny watching Adult Swim fight with its viewers over the "Action" vs. "Comedy" content lineups lately. Seems that in the Cartoon Network forums, a lot of people accuse the Adult Swim programmers of giving short shrift to the Action (read: anime) shows and avoiding showing them in the prime slots, et cetera.
Well, they just did an experiment for the past two or three weeks, where they showed nothing but Action shows (Inuyasha, Samurai Champloo, Fullmetal Alchemist, S-Cry-Ed, Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex, etc) on Saturday. And—devastatingly—when the ratings numbers came in, they proved to be about a tenth of what the comparable Comedy lineup brings in, with Futurama, Family Guy, Venture Brothers, ATHF, Sealab, Robot Chicken, and so on. So they returned Saturday to its accustomed Comedy/Action mixture as of this week, with appropriate fanfare in the just-in-time bumps.
Well, apparently the forums have been jumping over this decision, because just now they ran another bump, that went like this:
Okay, we know a lot of you still think we hate anime.
So let's end this.
Here's how it works:
You know what we like because of what we show.
We know what you like because of the ratings.
And after seeing the ratings on the Saturday Action lineup, we're forced to come to one conclusion:
YOU hate anime.
The numbers prove it.
[adult swim]
Hey, I wasn't going to say a dang thing.
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